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VErrikNi W LASTlk MURDERER FALLS; W. H. BOSTWICK SHOT AFTER FIERCE BATTLE. t After Riilline Three Officers Georgia f Desperado is Overcome in His Barricaded Cabin. Irwinville, Ga.. June 27.-Defiant1 even while the shadows of death closed around him and volley after .volley from the new Springfield rifles t of two militia companies made a siev of the walls of his humble home. W. H. Bostwick. the white des perado, who marked his last Sunday i by the murder of two officers of the I law and the serious wounding of three others, paid the penalty of I death shortly after 5 o'clock this I morning. He succumbed to many ] wounds received from the volleys fir- i ed into the building early in the ( night by a mob of infuriatecd ciii- < zens or from those of the military,. which began an attack -after 4 o'clock1 this morning. Hero of Fight Dies. I Almost at the same moment Sheriff' J. P. Mcunis of Irwin county. who was woP'm!M yesterday whilb mak-< to rp,lovc ZZ a wo:nuded fellow officr' from the range of Bostwick's deadly fire, ex-; pired. James Gill, another officer, was aded to the list or wounded dur ing the early -morning fusillade, but it Is believed that he will recover. E Surrounded by his six little chil-. dren, whom he held prisoners almost; to the end of the siege, Bostwick, who, had declared his intention of dying rather than submitting to arrest on' the charge of attempting to murder his brother-in-law, fought the battle b to the last ditch. Released Children. Knowing that death was near, the desperate man finally allowed the fear-stricken children to leave the C house. However, after they were un S der the protection of the military of-, ficers they refused to talk of the T events of the night. Capt. Charles A. Delang, com manding the Fitzgerald Guards, de-a scribed the battle of one desperate man against an 'aqually determined host in a vivd manner. tc Capt. Delang's original instruc- em tions from Ad.jt. Gen. Scott were to t await the arrival of the Albany di Guards before taking any steps to t capture BEoswick. 't Nob Was Angry. *Upon arriving at Bostwick's home, " however, he found the mob in such til a temper that he deemed immediate fo action absolutely necessary. He first th called upon Bostwick to surrender, c offering him protection from the mob, thm but the demand was as stoutly re- h fused, even though accompanied by a threat to take the besieged man dead or or alive. The officer then demanded i that the children be allowed to leaveI the house, but Bostwick also refused di this demand\ The little ones had b spent the entire night huddled close fc to the floor, fearing at any moment in that they would be victims of bullets t from the guns of the enraged people. w Fired Into Roof. l Capt. Delang ordered h.is men to r fire a volley into the roof of theh house, following which another de- r mand for surrender and release of .T the children was made upon Bost-b wick, who replied with a shot from p one of the three. weapons with which fil he was armed. Then came~ another d< volley from the soldiery, which caus-w ed Bostwick to ask that the lives of tc the children be not endangered. The w six children were then permitted to et leave the house and were taken in a charge by the soldiers. They would n answer no questions. The oldest -f daughter, Jennie, who had spent the long night attempting to shield the Itl younger children, cried because one ti of the younger boys had been forcedB to leave the house without his trous ers and the oldest boy was ill. s Replied With Shot. The children being taken to a place n Thf safety, Capt. Delang again de- .ti manded that Bostwick surrender, but; the only reply was a shot from the r: besieged man. Then the soldiers fir- If: ed a volley into the lower portion of k the house. A moment later officers t observed that a shingle had been re- p moved from the roof, this probably id being done by Bostwick in order to fire to better advantage. A hail of v~ lead was thrown into the roof, fol- F lowed by a thud, which indicated that Bostwick had fallen to the floor. Ob servers then called attention to the p fact that an object was seen moving I'I through a hole in the floor, and a vol- i ley was fired in that direction. A rush of the troops was then ordered, I the belief being that Bostwick had p been injured, but this was stopped fi by a shot from the building, which v struck James Gill, who was cared for by a physician. Delang's men then fired into the a building several times. Several men I then attempted to enter the building il ,ostwick. Tho Albany company then .ppeared on the scene and a rush ipon the building was made from all lirections. The doors were broken: >pen and Bostwick was found upon he floor dead. The Sabbath day tragedies and the inal battle scene occurred four milks vest of this village. In the crowd hat gathered around the bes!--ged iome were the most prominent wo nen of the community. These did iot remain at the scene for the pur )ose of witnessing bloodshed, but heir hearts went out to the children %ho were forcibly confined in the iome. There were stern, det'rmin -d faces in that crowd of fully fiv miudred mothers, many of whom were iave defied the deadly fire of the 5prin-gfield rifles before they -,would iave allowed one of the children to )e injured. The attitude of the wo nen resulted from a misunderstand ng of orders issued by Adjutant Gen ral Scott. who instructed the two :ompanes not to fire from a distimIe Lmd endanger the children. This nisunderstanding of the orders caus d Gov. Brown to ba the recipient of nany telegrams of protest during the lay. Immediately following Bost'wici's ,(I to Inv(sgate th,- Tt 11- oibc iimself in order to prevent being aptured. Whether he died from elf-inflicted wounds, or received the vounds during the fight with citiz ns or succumbed to the fire of the ;pringfields may never be known. 'he children doubtless know wheth r the father was wounded before ie arrival of soldiers but they would iake no statement. The children tonight are cared for y some of the neighborhood, Mrs. lostwick and one other child who I rare forced to leave home Friday id not go back there tonight. Many acts of heroism were re Drded during the bloody siege, most otable among these b-eing that of I heriff McInnis. Seeing his deputy, f . C. Bass, fall, and thinking he was I Lortally wounded, Sheriff McInnis ished from cover and took Bass to place of safety and in so doing re dtvad the wound which caused his d rath. He then proceeded to a n sighboring telephone and attempted I t Scommunicate with Adjutant Gen 'al Scott at Atlanta. H, was unable talk, however, and in whispers tated the message which caused Ie, .e adjutant genral to order the OOps5. .0o Bostwick literally died with his oots on" and not until his ammuni n, which he had replenished by ring one of his children to face N e fire of mob and take a pistol and el rtridges from the body of one of~ p e dead officers was exhausted, did cease firing. Almost in his last breath, he sent te final shot in the direction of then vaders. Not a shot was fired except by sol- ti ers as the final charge was made the militiamen up to Bostwick's' rtress. A half dozen young men uniform hurled themselves against, e door, which gave way under their eight. With drawn pistols they aped forward only to encounter the mains of a bloody mattress, which, tlf wrapped about Bostwick's body, lied half way through the door. le man was dead. His head was a: dly torn by bullets and others had is erced his body. The soldiers had a 'ed volley after volley and the won- p ir is he so long escaped a death ound. The house was wrecked and irn by the flying bullets. Furniture e as broken, kitchen utensils shatter- s 1. The children were protected by 0 pile of furniture and had spent the - ight on the floor, reasonably safe rom the bullets. When the little eary troop of tots staggered from d ieir father's home this morning tey declared that they had not seen ostwick durig the night. They were' hungry and men were sen -crying as the little children ere caught into the arms of the wo- I1 ten~ who were waiting to care for iem. Then the soldiers went to the se lous business of the day. Turning om the children they set' out .to I2 ill the father. Volleys broke from r 1e rows of guns and it was then e robably that Bostwick received hisa eath wounds. J. M. Gill, a farmer of Irwinville, ras the last man shot by Bostwick. 1 [e probably will die. Bostwick's e un, a Winchester repeating shot- 1 un, in which he used buckshot, was z ut out of business by a rifle bullet. c 'wo unexploded shells were found 3 i it when the house was taken. The dead: J. P. McInnis, sheriff of rwin county; Steve Davis, chief of r olice of Ocilla; Deputy Sheriff Shef- s eld, Irwin county; W. H. Bostwick, ictim of shots fired into his home. c The injured: James Gill, seriously t -ounded; Deputy Sheriff T. C. Bess, d rm broken and shot in abdomen; eputy Sheriff Wyatt Tucker, in ANNOUNCEMENTS. House of Representatives. I am a candidate for re-election to :he house of representatives, subject :o the rules of the Democratic pri-' nary. Godfrey Harmou. For Treasurer. I hereby announce myself as a can- i lidate for reelection to the offic3 ,of %ounty'treasurer, subject to the Dew -cratic primary. Jno. L. Epps. For Judge of Probate. I hereby announce myself as a can lidate for reelection to the office of i judge of probate, subject to the Dem >cratic primary. F. M. Schumpert. I hereby announce myself a candi-' late for the office of probate judge or Newberry county, and Will abide :he rules of the Democratic primary. B. B. LeitzseY. For Xa.eistrate No. 10. I hereby announce myself a can tidiatt. for nuIs,- o or .\O. 1 town hip and0 h w bide: the rules of We Ihos. L. B. 1s. 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